Word: nazareth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kippur, two Sundays ago, Azmi Bishara heard on a radio call-in show that a Jewish mob intended to torch his house. Bishara, a member of parliament from Nazareth, advocates an end to Israel's Jewish character in favor of "a state of all its citizens." He rushed home to evacuate his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter, and at midnight a crowd gathered outside his home and stoned it. "Imagine if Arabs had attacked the house of a Jewish member of parliament," says Bishara. "They would have shot them. At my house, the police were just trying...
...body in the lap of his badly wounded father. The power of that image may come to symbolize the bitterness of the battle for sovereignty over Jerusalem's holiest hill - because whether in Hebron or Gaza, the narrow streets of Jerusalem of even dusty Israeli-Arab towns such as Nazareth, the five days of clashes that have killed 34 Palestinians and three Israelis and left more than 700 people wounded are all about the fate of Jerusalem. Qualitatively, the clashes have been even more violent than the 1996 showdown over a tunnel opened by Israel on the Temple Mount - Israeli...
...Saturday, with some help from the Israeli police, John Paul defied rumors of trouble at Nazareth's Church of the Annunciation. It was in this place that the Angel Gabriel is believed to have told Mary she would give birth to the Messiah; accordingly, a legend on the altar reads HERE THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH. But it was also here last year that Muslim riots broke out when Christians objected to a mosque going up nearby. No disturbances rent the peace during the Pope's two-hour Mass, however, perhaps because a Muslim prayer leader preached against disturbances after...
...miffed that John Paul II will visit a Palestinian refugee camp outside Bethlehem, where they fear he may make remarks affirming the right of refugees to return to their homes - which, in the case of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, are in Israel. Even Christ's hometown of Nazareth will require some delicate diplomacy: The Israeli authorities have allowed local Muslims to begin building a mosque in the shadow of the Basilica of the Annunciation - the site where the Angel Gabriel is said to have appeared to Mary - over the objections of local Christians and the Vatican, and tensions...
...neatest illustration of the week's complexity, however, is the Pope's Mass at Nazareth's Basilica of the Annunciation. It is scheduled for March 25, the feast day marking the angelic announcement to a young Nazarene Jew that she would give birth to the Son of God. Last year the Israeli government appalled the Vatican by issuing a permit for a mosque to be built near the basilica. There was dark talk that the trip would be scuttled. It wasn't but another problem arose. The 25th is a Saturday, and 2,000 Jewish religious figures protested that attending...